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rrrrr · 3816 days ago · link · · parent · post: Thomas Friedman's Iraq op-ed in the Sunday Times: "we have no friends in this fight"
"We still want to forge a nuclear deal that prevents Iran from developing a bomb, so we have to be careful about how much we aid Iran’s Sunni foes. But with Iran still under sanctions and its forces and Hezbollah’s now fighting in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, well, let’s just say: advantage America." I don't understand this. What advantage for the US does he think there is in Iran being an overextended defender of the Shia regime in Baghdad against an onslaught of Sunni fundamentalists? And what does the US want to get from aiding Iran's Sunni foes?